Nepeta. LABIATE. 377 



33. CEDRONfiLLA, Moench. (Diminutive of KtS^m, oil of cedar, 

 fi'om the sweet-scented leaves of C. triphylla of the Canaries and Madeira, the 

 Balm-of-Gilead of English gardens.) — The following are the other species ; 

 sweet-odorous perennials ; with petioled leaves, and flesh-colored or purplish 

 flowers, in summer. — Meth. 411 ; Beuth. Lab. .301. 



§ 1. Tube of corolla little exsevted beyond the ample calyx, its throat inflated : 

 stamens shorter than the upper lip : flowers rather few, loosely and almost simply 

 spicate. 



C. COrdata, Benth. 1. c. Low, hirsute-pubescent, producing long leafy runners : leaves 

 long-petioled, cordate, crenate ; the floral reduced to ovate bracts, eacli subtending 1 to 3 

 sliort-pedicelled minutelj' bracteolate fiowers : calyx campanulate : corolla purplish, hairy 

 inside, over an inch long. — Drucocepludum cordalum, Nutt. Gen. iL3d. — Moist shady banks, 

 W. Penn. to Kentucky and mountains of N. Carolina and Tennessee. 



§ 2. Corolla slender, with tube exserted beyond the narrow calyx : stamens 



exserted : erect herbs o£ the Mexican region ; with the verticillastrate glomerules 



or condensed cymes interrupted-spicate in the manner of LophaiUhus, but less 



condensed. 



—~C Mexicana, Benth. Puberulent or almost glabrous : stems 1 to 3 feet high : leaves 



ovate-lanceolate, or the lower ovate and cordate, crenate-dentate ; lower floral sessile and 



often entire; upper ones lanceolate and reduced to short bracts of the many-flowered 



spicate clusters : teeth of the purplish calyx subulate : corolla bright pink (an inch or 



more long), thrice the length of the calyx. — Dracocephalum ilexieanum, HBK. Xov. Gen. 



& Spec. ii. 'Zi2. t. 160. Garjor/uia betonicoides, Lindl. Bot. Keg. xxiv. misc. Sij ; Hook. Bot. 



Mag. t. 3si30. — Mountauis of S. Arizona, near Santa Cruz, Wright. A form with mainly 



ovate and obtuse coarsely crenate leaves, resemblingX". pallida, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxxii. t. 2D, 



but with (inch long) much exserted corolla. (Mex.) 



Var. cana, Gray. Pale and very minutely cinereous, or inclined to be so : leaves 

 smaller (half to inch and a half long), less toothed: corolla an inch long or sometimes 

 much smaller. — Proc. Am. Acad. viiL 370. C. cana. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4618: Torr. Bot. 

 Mex. Bound. ].3:i!, chiefly. — N'ew Mexico, Wright, Bigeloic, &c. A form with much smaller 

 (seemingly not well-developed) flowers is C.i>allida,\ar., Torr. I.e. anAHypiis spicaia? Torr. 

 1. e. 129. — S. Arizona, Wriylu, Thurber. (Adjacent Mex.) 

 C. micrantha, Gray, 1. c. Puberulent : stems slender, branching above : leaves thin, 

 slender-petioled, cuarsdy crenate-dentate ; the lower cordate-ovate, obtuse ; upper ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong ; upper floral reduced to minute bracts and shorter than the calyx : 

 capitate clusters sessile, many-flowered, mostly approximate in a cylindrical naked spike : 

 calyx ovate-canipanulate, less than 2 lines long, greenish ; the triangular-subulate teeth 

 about half the length of the tube: corolla (whitish, barely 2 lines long) and stamens little 

 exserted. — 8. W. Texas, towards the border of Xew Mexico (station not recorded), Wrigld. 



34. NEPETA, L. Gat-Mixt. (Probably from the Etrurian city Xepete.) — 

 A large gemis in the Old World ; two are naturalized weeds iu the New, repre- 

 senting distinct sections, differing in habit and inflorescence, rather than in the 

 floweij, which are produced all summer. 



= N. Cataria, L. (Catnip.) Erect, branched, tall, minutely tomentose: leaves ovate or 

 oblong and cordate, coarsely crenate, green above, canescent beneath: glomerate cymes 

 many-flowered, spicate-crowded at the extremity of the branches, subtended by small 

 floral leaves: bracts and calyx-teeth slender-subulate, soft: corolla whitish with snnie 

 dark dots; the middle lobe of lower lip crenate-dentate. — Common eastward, especially 

 near dwellings. (Xat. from Eu.) 



9 N. Glechoma, Benth. Procumbent or creeping, slender, somewhat pubescent, equally leafy 

 throughout : leaves long-petioled, reniforra or round-cordate, coarsely crenate : flowers 2 or 



